Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-25

heaven is not ar0ored with as flne foil
age, or the banks beautifully showed IN
! der with exquisite chrysanthemums as
. once, that therefore you are on the wrong
road. The road will bring you out at
! THE SAME GATE
whether you walk with the stride of an
athlete or come up on clutches. Tnous-
ands OF Christians morbid about their
experiences and morbid s0out their bust
ness, and morbid about the present, and
morbid about the future, need the sermon
| an now preaching.
- Another practical use of this subject is
for the young. The theory is abroad that
!, they must first SOW their wild oats, and
afterwards Michigan wheat. Let ne
bTesk the deIusion. Wild oats sre gener-
ally sown in the liver, and they can never
be pulled up. They so preoccupy that
organ that there is no room for the i'm
plsntation OF righteous crop. You see
erect, agile, splendid, grand old
men. How much wild oats
did they SOW between eighteen years and
thirty? None, absolutely none. God
does not very often honor with old age
those who have in early life sacrificed
swine on the altar of the bodily temple.
Remember, o young man, that while in
after life, and after years of dissipation,
you may perhaps have your heart changed,
religion does not change the liver. Trem-
bling and staggering along these streets
to-day are men, all bent and decayed, and
premsturely old for the reason that they
are paying for liens they put upon their
physical estate before they were thirty.
By early dissipation they put on their body
FIRST MORTGAGE,
8 second mortgage, and third mortgage
to the devil, and these mortgages are now
being fOreclosed, and all that remains Of
their earthly estate the under
taker will soon put out of sight. Many
years ago, in fulfiilmens of my text, q dart
struck through their liver, and it is there
yet. God forgives, but outraged physi-
cal law never, never, never. That has 8
Sinai, but no Calvary. Solomon in my
text knew what he YVES talking about. He
mad in early life been q profgate, and be
rises up on his throne of worldly splendor
10 shrek out warning to all the centu-
ries. David, bad in early life, but good
in later life, cries out with an sgony OF
earnestness: Remember not the sins of
my youth"
Stephen a, Douglas gave the name OF
"squstter sovereignty" to those who
lands and held them by right of preoccu-
patton. Let q flock Of sins settle on your
heart before you get to twenty-five years
of age and they will in all probability
keep possession of it by an Internal squat
Ter sovereignty. 81 promise to pay at
the bank $500 six months from date"
says the promissory note. "I promise to
pay my life thirty years from date at the
bank of the grave" says every lnfraction
of the laws of your physical being.
What! Will mans body never CON-
pletely recover from early dissipation in
this world? Never. How about the
world to come? Perhaps God will fix it
up in the resurrection body so that it
will not have to GO Iimping through sll
eternity, but get the liver thoroughly
damaged and it will stay damaged. Phys
icIans call it cancer of the liver or harden
ing of the liver or cirrhosis of the liver
OF Inflammation of the liver or fatty de-
generation of the liver, but Solomon
puts all these pangs into one figure and
says: "Till the dart strike through his
liver"
Hesiod seemed TO have some hint of
this when he represented Prometheus for
his crimes fastened to q pillar and an
eagle
FEEDING ON HIS LIVER
which WAS renewed each night, so that
the devouring went on until finally Her
cules slew the eagle and rescued PRONE
theus. And dissipsted early life as
sures q ferocity pecking away and
in and year out, and death is
the only Hercules who can break the
power OF its beak or unclench its claw.
So also Virgil and Homer wrote fables
about Vultures preying upon the liver, but
there are those here to-day with whom it
is no fable, but terrible reality.
} That young man smoking cigarettes
J and smoking cigars has no idea that he is
getting for himself smoked liver. That
young man has no idea that he has by
J early dissipation so depleted his energies
} that he will go into the battle only half
armed. Napoleon lost Waterloo days
before it was fought. Had he attacked
! the English army before 1t was
reinforced, snd taken it division by
| division, he might have won the day, but
he waited until he had only 100 600
men against 200, 900. And here is young
: man who, If he put all his forces against
the regiment of youthful temptations, in
, the strength of God might drive them
bsck, but be is allowing them 10 De rein-
| forced by the whole army of mid-lite
temptations, end when all these
: combined forces are msssed against
him and no Grouchy comes to help him,
} and Butcher has come to help his foes,
: what but immortal defeat can await him?
On, my young brother, do not make the
mistake that thousands all around you
are making, in opening the battle against
sin too late, for this world too late, and for
! the world to come too late. What brings
that express train from st. Louis into
jersey City three hours late? They lost
J fifteen minutes early on the route, and
: that affected them all the way, and they
had
!. TO BE SWITCHED OBE
= here and switched off there, and detained
here and detained there, and the man
who loses time and strength in the ear
, lier part of the Journey of life will suffer
for it sill the way through, the first twenty
! years of life damaging the following fifty
: years.
) Some years ago g scientific lecturer
went through the country exhibiting on
great canvas different parts of the human
oody when healthy, and different parts
/ when diseased. And what the world
: wants now is some eloquent scientist to
} 60 through the country showing to our
2 young people on blazing canvas the
drunkard's liver, the idler's liver, the